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[001] o years' output in Virginia. With those paintings of _____ constructions crashing down, he felt he could stop.
[002] ow life included Thomas Bangs Thorpe, creator of the _____ Bear of Arkansas and Tom Owen, the Bee-Hunter; Johns
[003] e wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, "The _____ Bear of Arkansas", in which earthy realism is placed
[004] re in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the _____ white house in Haverhill. With childlike innocence s
[005] iritual feeling of the jot. This grew into the song " _____ Time Comin'". By September 1940 the suite had develo
[006] sed at the mansion- a small one on rainy days, and a _____ one on bright days. The wool would become frazzled a
[007] luded. When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the _____ one looking out on the back porch, and put him to be
[008] whole; he wanted nothing compressed, tight. He was a _____ man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed; he desp
[009] one day what he was doing. He told me that he had a _____ newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting
[010] wt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a _____ eye of the
[011] eye of the _____ newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the li
[012] le newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the _____ newt. He was then noting that the
[013] newt. He was then noting that the _____ eye on the little newt hung back until the little ey
[014] eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the _____ newt grew rapidly until it was as
[015] newt grew rapidly until it was as _____ as the other. Then I asked, "What does that teach yo
[016] hree-quarters as much as had been expended on the " _____ Ditch" in ten years. In later years Josephus Dani
[017] population, the men who run advertising agencies and _____ corporations, control the rest of the people, the su
[018] o Svevo. He was thinking his way into a new novel, a _____ one, one that people had been waiting for. It was go
[019] t many other countries will ready themselves for the _____ push into self-sustaining growth. In still others wh
[020] Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the _____ story in 1960's industrial development effort. Fifty
[021] nce Day celebration will be properly observed with a _____ military and civic parade from West Warwick to the
[022] carriers in the vicinity of Cuba. More than 36 other _____ Navy ships are no less than a day's sailing time awa
[023] improvement and coordination programs, including (a) _____ -game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and i
[024] ider and wider groups. But these countries have made _____ strides toward developing the necessary human and
[025] m on his lap along with the twins, saying, "I have a _____ lap; there is room for you, too, Johnnie". Simultane
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[001] ut full of legendary and historic associations. As a _____ in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed
[002] "The Rocking Horse Winner" is also a story about a _____ 's love for his mother. If I now risk some comparisons
[003] hy. It is the story of the hopeless love of a little _____ for his cold and vain mother. There are ghostly scen
[004] mother. There are ghostly scenes in which the little _____ on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax t
[005] ion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little _____ who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny
[006] y effects of this story. It was, of course, a little _____ 's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and repl
[007] he symbol of impending tragedy. For this love of the _____ for his mother is a hopeless and forbidden love, doo
[008] We are also struck by the fact that this story of a _____ 's love for his mother does not offend, while the inc
[009] tta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a _____ and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like
[010] which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a _____ 's name. But both were high-spirited and vivacious, b
[011] guitar as a prop. He is no dextrous-fingered college _____ but rather a dedicated, humble, and bashful apostle
[012] plining them. I found that this precocious, grown-up _____ of 74 deserved to be taught. There has long existed
[013] to assign a full-time maid to keeping an eye on the _____ . But one afternoon Mrs. Mercer met her; both were ob
[014] Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger _____ . It generally took well into the autumn for the firm
[015] ohnny", sighed the bank president, "the best-hearted _____ in the world, but absent-minded". But Mercer's expla
[016] es and to tease the people around him. A little _____ came to give the President his personal condolences,
[017] olences, and the President gave word that any little _____ who wanted to see him was to be shown in. Backstairs,
[018] lled them "Just Asses" and called a freeman "a saucy _____ and Jack-an-Apes". He was jailed and banished.
[019] e legs were a little too bony. She had the hips of a _____ and a loose-jointed walk that reminded me of a strin
[020] ay came the voice of a man I had known when he was a _____ , and I later remembered that this
[021] , and I later remembered that this _____ , thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no
[022] inst him,- I had never felt that way about any other _____ ,- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I ha
[023] ever hearing from him again, I remembered the little _____ of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years
[024] zis. Finally we got them out of the house, after the _____ had run away four times looking for other Nazis, thr
[025] en one of my old professors and who still called me " _____ " when I was sixty. It reminded me of my other profes
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[001] though their people had very few slaves themselves, _____ they had been pretty considerable carriers of them t
[002] appy existence, and for that reason he loves it. And _____ amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage and Wander-Y
[003] s people ask for is no more war. But he plunges into _____ another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an
[004] n of Independence, I believe, we generally accept. _____ , after Rousseau had given the social contract a new
[005] t the outcome until he read the American newspapers. _____ the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands
[006] ith the ideas on which it has not properly focussed. _____ with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some o
[007] g in potency insofar as it is in potency and has not _____ reached the terminus of the change. With regard to t
[008] urrent silent and making it present; it conceals and _____ is suggestive; a perfect symbol. And if we understan
[009] marriage. Ortega's hope that modern psychology might _____ bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only b
[010] too loved their families, longed for their villages: _____ lacked the faith that drove one to dare ... the fear
[011] red on "rediscovering and singing of the prosaic and _____ beautiful world of men and objects so long barred fr
[012] misdemeanants against the public order of Wisconsin. _____ somehow, when officers were prodded into visiting Ta
[013] eping statements to the newspapers. Miriam had not _____ goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can
[014] ng to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing _____ has been printed which I have sanctioned". What irri
[015] s, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor _____ for money or what money buys that I burned, I too wa
[016] ad off a flower and expect its perfume to linger on. _____ this passion for passion, now that I look back on it
[017] to be the most prosperous year in our history. _____ we continue to be afflicted by nagging disorders. Am
[018] sing you or I were being accused in this manner, and _____ we were doing our level best to carry on our work. N
[019] y having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, _____ nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he f
[020] that it was futile to argue with her young husband, _____ the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congre
[021] the waves threatening to swallow up the vessel; and _____ remain unmoved". Ann thrilled to the sight of a d
[022] ith the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen. He had _____ to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had "collabo
[023] if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love (and _____ not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotio
[024] steem) and if it is to talk of anger and murder (and _____ not aim at arousing anger and indignation)- then it
[025] m, now in full cry, was the joke of the new century. _____ no leader had come to the fore who seemed likely to
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[001] ransgression against the commandment not to love are _____ invariably associated in one way or another with chi
[002] ry and Mississippi's. One can meet with aloofness _____ anywhere: the Thank-Heaven-We're-not-Involved viewpo
[003] it blithe insouciance. The trouble here is that it's _____ too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn
[004] s of odd characters. The general effect is tragic. _____ nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, t
[005] ne hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is _____ always self-employed. As a free-lance investigator,
[006] of latent criminality in the detective himself has _____ entirely disappeared. Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter
[007] e hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has _____ zero possibility. The commands are specified by the
[008] warn us? Noting such evidence is the first step; and _____ the only "cure" is early detection and removal. One
[009] hnological culture which penetrated Russia as it did _____ every corner of the earth without a nickel from the
[010] wn organization (an ability made possible by us, and _____ mandatory). As to benefits to employees, it is notor
[011] nature to be impersonal, inhumane, shortsighted and _____ exclusively profit-motivated, a picture they could s
[012] es, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written _____ two centuries earlier. He could learn at second hand
[013] d dealing with the steprelationship. The stepmother, _____ without exception, has been presented as a cruel ogr
[014] de the circular motions of heavenly bodies appear an _____ directly observed fact. Additional philosophica
[015] was enchanted- no two better suited people ever met. _____ from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to sta
[016] South-Asian region. Here, in two nations alone, are _____ five hundred million people, all working, and workin
[017] e was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for _____ a year of willfully attempting to present an incorre
[018] eary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the _____ intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done l
[019] regard for rest-room protocol, the hulking stranger _____ knocked Herford off his pins. The artist-author said
[020] ising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say _____ invariably, "Gentlemen, this is an amazing story! It
[021] al coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become _____ affable. There was one time, however, when his fa
[022] not the development of conscience, which may well be _____ beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of
[023] therwise seem shapeless and without sense". Men seem _____ universally to want a sense of function, that is, a
[024] r like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is _____ Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in M
[025] n was at least in part attracted to the period by an _____ unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaul
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[001] he Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he _____ the American newspapers. Yet the attitude that the f
[002] es with his mourning mother at his bedside. I had _____ the story many times without asking myself why it af
[003] eaders of the modern movement", according to Herbert _____ , "and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Se
[004] rld War /2, from the French side. It was very widely _____ , too; and the author, who seemed the embodiment of F
[005] fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to _____ into our authors- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example,
[006] of his knowledge. His own testimony is that he has _____ very little in the history of the South, implying th
[007] in literature. It would be profitable, I believe, to _____ these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works
[008] r's works, the thought being not that he necessarily _____ them and owed anything to them directly, but rather
[009] if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to _____ one another's minds, there will still be the question
[010] orth reading- worth more, that is, than what you can _____ in good books. Even if men eventually find themselves
[011] r Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen. "My mother _____ a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian
[012] a young girl. She knelt out of reverence for having _____ the Meditations of St. Augustine. She
[013] the Meditations of St. Augustine. She _____ everything else she could get her hands on, includin
[014] ies has to do with the way in which its leaders have _____ and interpreted the Bible. This reading and the comm
[015] legislators resisted. For a freshman Congressman to _____ political lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor po
[016] rpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be _____ and reread long after newer interpretations have p
[017] looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others _____ in "The Hound of Heaven" what they took to be the co
[018] on generally displayed a judicious attitude. That he _____ some of the books assigned to him with a studied car
[019] ities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could _____ the Bible in the original. He worked as a "clothier"
[020] ief. I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I _____ as literature. No load of sin had been laid on my sh
[021] Lambarene, Africa, or in Washington, D.C. One cannot _____ the records of scientists, officials and travelers w
[022] realizing that each individual met with is a person. _____ , for instance, in Malcolm MacDonald's Borneo People
[023] al adjustment to encroaching civilization. Above all _____ in Jens Bjerre's The Last Cannibals how the old man
[024] extreme or as sudden as it may first appear. He had _____ his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his
[025] nt musicians to supply this feeling. Patchen does _____ some of his earlier works to music, but he has writt
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[001] re all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for _____ , a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial wri
[002] discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to _____ Kennedy. As symptomatic of the common man's malaise,
[003] ression literally flooded Washington. For a time the _____ received hundreds of them every day, most of them wo
[004] production. We would establish no censorship. The _____ 's personality would have opened that office to him.
[005] er that the consulting specialists might clarify the _____ 's condition for the nation. And if Howard Rutstein f
[006] y reminded us that in the historical perspective the _____ 's decision will finally clarify itself as a moral, r
[007] responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the _____ , rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more s
[008] lex moral problems under political pressure. For the _____ had dealt with the matter humbly, in what he conceiv
[009] ading results of the earnestness of both doctors and _____ in a situation which should never have arisen. It wa
[010] error. It recurred in the press conferences: the _____ 's remarks about his running developed a singular ton
[011] ople of America and of the world how their governing _____ "ends up" during the four years of his term. Only wh
[012] eater risk than is the normal person of my age", the _____ had said on February 29th of the election year, igno
[013] did the situation color his thinking. Ironically no _____ we have had would have regretted more than
[014] we have had would have regretted more than _____ Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, i
[015] r national emergency other than a talk with the vice- _____ , Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality o
[016] use a television debate can so effectively dramatize _____ Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have th
[017] Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university _____ in four Southern states, published the earliest of t
[018] utralism by our Department of State, and an American _____ observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less
[019] was not signed. "That's Johnny", sighed the bank _____ , "the best-hearted boy in the world, but absent-mind
[020] ould be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the _____ tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes
[021] people around him. A little boy came to give the _____ his personal condolences, and the
[022] his personal condolences, and the _____ gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him
[023] nvitation was not mentioned to Mrs. Coolidge. The _____ was even more generous with the First Lady than he h
[024] the second floor, and it hung over the stairway. The _____ used to look at it with a ghost of a smile. Mrs
[025] most of the time. Mrs. Coolidge would knit, and the _____ would sit reading, or playing with the many pets aro
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[001] ition, in which, as Leverku^hn says, "there shall be _____ unthematic". It resembles, too, pictures such as Du^
[002] ording to the attitude of modern empiricism in which _____ is thought to be received other than signals of sens
[003] vivid. In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is _____ academic; all is seen and felt and experienced, the
[004] d characters. The general effect is tragic. Almost _____ is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the centr
[005] willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has _____ but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of t
[006] ividualist than any of his predecessors. For Hammer, _____ is forbidden. He kills when he pleases, takes his wo
[007] immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if _____ else. We must believe we have the ability to affect
[008] ay with the President, rather than with his doctors, _____ raises more surely for us the difficulties simple go
[009] omething significant has transpired was in evidence. _____ testifies more clearly to that cleavage than the pec
[010] argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was _____ more than the irresistible unconscious longings of O
[011] let with my money and papers; Moineau and David held _____ but their fingers ... They felt rough and kind and w
[012] and adore it". In prison he had been able to sketch _____ but figures from life, his guards, his companions in
[013] lically arranged on their several deferents, we have _____ but a misleading /20,th-century idea of what never e
[014] project of great and appropriate charm, that came to _____ . Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of A
[015] purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and _____ yet has been printed which I have sanctioned". What
[016] esire and even experience a flaming delight that had _____ ,
[017] , _____ whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone
[018] , who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that _____ would be done until his return on January 22, except
[019] up by the Disciplinary Committee .... "We have _____ to hide under a bushel. We did our job, Mr. Stavropo
[020] ietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have _____ to do with the Western world. When Captain John Giba
[021] did after his return was an inconsequential bit of _____ titled Out of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bo
[022] hile leading man Eddie Bracken mouthed the words. If _____ else, at least two good songs came out of the projec
[023] ere's Johnny, and why did you leave him"? "There was _____ else I could do", the maid answered, satisfied with
[024] knocked Herford off his pins. The artist-author said _____ , but stood to one side. He waited a long time.
[025] , but stood to one side. He waited a long time. _____ was said,
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[001] evidence for them accumulates. For the present it is _____ to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at t
[002] ace on a stage, during an 'artistic' performance, is _____ to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon
[003] drive Praisegod Piepsam away. This is simple _____ , but several more points of interest may be mentione
[004] nrequited toil". Lincoln was historian and economist _____ to know that a substantial portion of this wealth ha
[005] than they do in looking for the criminal. Frequently _____ , the police are themselves in league with the killer
[006] tive endeavors. The party is usually in a room small _____ so that all guests are within sight and hearing of o
[007] lly fervent concern over the belief that we have not _____ generalists who can see the over-all picture and com
[008] ld call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious _____ , to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism. And
[009] re valuable than many fuzzy ones. But clarity is not _____ . The writer took a class of college students to the
[010] But ideas, just for the sake of having them, are not _____ . In the 1930's, cures for the depression literally f
[011] age to discount the dangers of his death. Ironically _____ , in this instance such personal virtues were a luxur
[012] portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien _____ that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does
[013] always incomplete, to complete himself. It is not _____ for man to be an ontological esse. He needs existent
[014] because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done _____ to prevent it". ## In June, 1940, Sergeant Helio
[015] icated the direction but they have not been explicit _____ , I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence,
[016] hitect- to give the world a little joy". Little _____ joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when
[017] . A storm did take place that night, and fortunately _____ , it included a cloudburst that helped put out the fl
[018] canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well _____ that it was not. If I am to speak the whole truth ab
[019] dy in its possession ...". It sounded like a fair _____ invitation, Peter Marshall reflected, and Bang-Jense
[020] he Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, _____ to clear up the debt. The check had been mailed from
[021] d from the skimpy toilet. That unused room was large _____ for- well, say an elephant could get into it ... and
[022] I was in charge of the arrangements- which were soon _____ disarranged. I had had difficulties from the very
[023] t to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved _____ for him to come back to Washington to work in the Go
[024] in the same local, national, and world community is _____ to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some
[025] ith anger or applause. But simple involvement is not _____ ; self-discovery calls for an open, permissive, inqui
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[001] hapters in the philosophy of art may be written. For _____ or worse we cannot regard "imitation" in the arts in
[002] hite school, and in every instance the former made a _____ appearance (it was newer, for one thing). It really
[003] or there is no hope for him. Lincoln understood this _____ than most when he said in his "Second Inaugural" tha
[004] ine, we have the key to his nature. Few writers have _____ understood their deepest selves. Heidenstam could ne
[005] third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but _____ coordinated, more concise and more dramatic. Though
[006] of the United States to assist in the creation of a _____ world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy".
[007] d to Shylock were abhorrent to the Jews. Are we _____ off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock? Studyi
[008] cratic husband with a coal-black child. Is the world _____ for having this idea thrust upon it? Will argument
[009] any stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far _____ than the real mothers. Helen Deutsch informed u
[010] find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no _____ way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic
[011] ries for an old man's entertainment. Mann understood _____ than most men the incest comedy at the center of the
[012] one may question whether this will help them to live _____ lives. There would be side-conclusions to be drawn,
[013] describing this spirit, we decided that it would be _____ to use Mr. Lyford's introduction as an illustration.
[014] e, and smart. No wonder Wright was enchanted- no two _____ suited people ever met. Almost from that day, until
[015] do is fire you". "Madame Noel, I think you had _____ go", said Mrs. Cupply. "And I think you had
[016] go", said Mrs. Cupply. "And I think you had _____ leave", replied Miriam. Turning to the reporters, sh
[017] ters, she asked, "Did you hear her? 'I think you had _____ leave'! And this is my own home". In the silence tha
[018] mbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or _____ still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug. Whe
[019] Bradford. The weather turned warmer and with it came _____ appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-c
[020] nd that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a _____ understanding. The last point was soon to be include
[021] And would you believe it', Vic added, 'she likes him _____ than she does me. Why'"? About the only time th
[022] which they may gain more insight into themselves and _____ understanding of others. Properly used, the present
[023] Of the two, the life of Bright is incomparably the _____ biography. Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Brig
[024] irmish fire. As always, the ranks worked out new and _____ tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the fie
[025] n. Most of the Rebels got away since they could make _____ time through the stiff brush than their naked pursue